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Leofa 14

Name

Summary

Leofa 14 was a king’s clerk in lowland Somerset who had 1 virgate worth 10s. in both 1066 and 1086.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 16,8	Vill Beere	DB Spelling Liofus	Holder 1066 Leofa, king's clerk of Beere	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Leofa, king's clerk	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 16,8	Vill Beere	DB Spelling Liofus	Holder 1066 Leofa, king's clerk of Beere	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Leofa, king's clerk	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Beere looks from the complicated pattern of nineteenth-century parish boundaries to have once been part of the large royal manor of Cannington (Som. 1:6; Kain and Oliver 2001: nos. 32/222, 264; VCH Som. VI, 251–6).  In DB it consisted of a single virgate of land, sufficient for 1 plough, precariously balanced on dry land among the marshy levels of the Parrett estuary. Its 6 acres of meadow and mill worth 6d. probably lay by the stream running into the estuary. The king’s clerk Leofa held Beere in both 1066 and 1086, farming in the latter year with a single ploughteam, 1 slave, 2 bordars, and a few cattle, sheep, and pigs.

Bibliography

Kain and Oliver 2001: Roger J. P. Kain and Richard R. Oliver, Historic Parishes of England & Wales: An Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata (Colchester: History Data Service, 2001)

VCH Som. VI: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Somerset, VI, ed. R. W. Dunning (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1992)